Mikey Lacroix, 20, son of Evelyn and John Lacroix, owners of Ski Ward in Shrewsbury, is the 12th-ranked U.S. snowboard cross, or boardercross, racer, a rising star with serious Olympic aspirations and a business major at UMass Lowell, who takes each spring semester off to compete.

The Born to Run Foundation made its first prosthetic donation recently to 3-year-old Isaak Depelteau of Amherst, N.H. Isaak's new prosthetic running leg was officially presented by foundation founder Noelle Lambert, a senior at UMass Lowell who lost her left leg in a moped accident on Martha's Vineyard in 2016.

A new digital archive -- launched at UMass Lowell on Dec. 4 -- documents the history, culture and experiences of people of Southeast Asian origin living throughout the area.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to a team of researchers led by a UMass Lowell mechanical engineering professor that is working to develop renewable fuel additives from sawdust and other wood byproducts.

Robert Smith, director of the U.S. Navy's Small Business Innovation Research program, spoke at the opening of UMass Lowell's new Research Institute in Lincoln. The center will host a variety of public-private sector partnerships, including workforce development, research opportunities and more.

Oprah Winfrey made the most of her appearance as the special guest at Thursday’s Chancellor’s Speaker Series, pledging to match the $1.5 million the event had already raised.

Supported by a $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), M2D2 will establish a new center to assist inventors pioneering promising new point-of-care devices and technologies for patients with heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders.

Andre Dubus III draws on his own earlier experiences at Salisbury Beach and in Newburyport and Florida as settings for his new novel, "Gone So Long."

Three women representing three generations of a single family who are all working toward their bachelor's degrees at UMass Lowell this semester are featured in piece.

"We're retaining our students at a higher rate, we're graduating them and we feel really great looking at these numbers," said UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney, speaking during an Editorial Board meeting with The Sun.

With the support of thousands of donors, UMass Lowell’s first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign, “Our Legacy, Our Place,” has surpassed its $125 million goal 18 months ahead of schedule, thanks to a new, $5 million commitment from alumnus Brian Rist, the largest single gift in university history.

Now in his sixth season as the head coach of the UMass Lowell men's basketball team, Pat Duquette has done something he's never done before. He has appointed team captains.

Dave Ouellette, president of Acre Coming Together Improving Our Neighborhood, and UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney unveiled a new student-painted mural on Decatur Way, a narrow alley between Salem and Merrimack streets that was transformed from a wooded haven for drugs and the homeless to a paved walkway lined with art, poetry, and the creativity of the neighborhood.

It’s been a whirlwind three years since Trevor Noah took over as host of “The Daily Show.” Now Noah, who plays the Tsongas Center in Lowell Friday, has become more comfortable with the chaos.

Philanthropist and entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey will bring her wisdom and candor to UMass Lowell on Nov. 15 as part of the Chancellor's Speaker Series.

This week, Peter Casey officially took over as UMass Lowell's Director of Athletics, replacing Dana Skinner, who held the post for the last 23 years.

Engineering student Shawn Reese had a summer internship at M.I.T.’s Lincoln Laboratory. He is beginning work on a four-year degree in engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Brianna Langlois, 19, of Westford, is part of the Reserved Placement Program, a new partnership between UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College that lets students live in the UML dorm while spending their first semester at MCC.

Associate Professor Jessica Garb will use NSF grant to figure out how Darwin’s bark spider produces its silk and what makes it so tough.

Hoping to increase the pool of people who choose accounting as a profession, a trade group is launching an early college academy at Haverhill High School that will enable students to earn up to 12 college credits through UMass Lowell.

Sophia Manukian is one of nine high school-age interns conducting biological research at UMass Lowell this summer under the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MSLC) high school apprenticeship challenge.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Tsongas Industrial History Center, a partnership of UMass Lowell's College of Education and Lowell National Historical Park in Lowell, a highly competitive $158,367 grant to support a series of one-week workshops for educators that enhance and strengthen humanities teaching at the kindergarten through grade 12 levels.

The Lowell National Historical Park quarter -- part of the U.S. Mint's America the Beautiful Quarter Series -- will display the image of a mill girl, working at a power loom with its prominent circular bobbin battery. Behind her, a piece of the city's skyline, including a smoke stack and the Boott Mill clock tower, can be seen through a window.

During the summer of 2018, UMass Lowell softball shortstop Courtney Cashman has been playing baseball along with her two brothers, Timothy and Justin, for the Rowley Rams of the Intertown Twilight League, the first woman to play in the baseball league.

Slated to open next year on campus, a new center will provide students with access to Dassault Systemes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its design and collaboration applications.

Danvers High’s greatest basketball player has become UMass Lowell’s most accomplished director of intercollegiate athletics. Now, after 31 years, Dana Skinner is retiring.

UMass Lowell physics professor Archana Kamal was recently named to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's list of 35 Innovators Under 35.

UMass Lowell's new Fabric Discovery Center at 110 Canal St. had its official ribbon-cutting on Thursday.

It's a big class -- 12 in all -- featuring 10 players who are at least 6 feet tall and three who weigh at least 200 pounds that make up UMass Lowell's hockey incoming freshman class.

Distinguished University Professor Holly Yanco dispensing fun and science.

Scientists from UMass Lowell, the University of Pennsylvania and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reported that omega-3 supplements may calm aggressive behavior in children.

State legislators joined the Toxics Use Reduction Act program recently to recognize 2018 Champions of Toxics Use Reduction at the State House, including Little Leaf Farms, who worked with Asst. Prof. Boce Zhang at UMass Lowell.

Officials at LaunchPad Medical, LLC, say they're on the right track to breaking ground in developing "bone glue." They worked at incubator spaces at UMass Lowell, under the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) umbrella.

UMass Lowell junior first baseman/outfielder Russ Olive was taken in the 29th round (870th overall) by the Tampa Bay Rays in the Major League Baseball draft. The 6-foot-3, 205-pounder turned 22 last Sunday.

The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) -- a joint partnership between UMass Lowell and UMass Medical Center -- was introduced Tuesday as among eight accelerators selected by the Department of Health and Human Services under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.

UML assistant professor of chemical engineering Gulden Camci-Unal's research uses structures inspired by origami for tissue regeneration.

UMass Lowell leaders, students, faculty and staff gathered last week to dedicate one of the university's academic buildings in honor of alumnus James Dandeneau of Dayville, Conn.

Students from 97 countries were among the 4,370 graduates from this year's class to graduate on Saturday.

UMass Lowell seniors Benjamin Tran, 21, and senior Katie Elwell, 22, of Tewksbury, created a wind turbine component of the renewable energy "traveling classroom" for their mechanical engineering capstone.

UMass Lowell graduating senior and math major Nicholas Raymond, 22, who has spinal muscular atrophy, is graduating Saturday with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

UMass Lowell had received about 80 undergraduate applications from Mount Ida students and is moving quickly to process the transfer applications, evaluate transcripts, award financial aid packages and otherwise assist students with the transition.

Led by first-place finishes by senior Paul Hogan, junior Sean Munnelly and graduate student John Fiorello, the UMass Lowell men's track and field team turned its strongest finish ever at the America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Catonsville, Md.

UMass Lowell will welcome Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central and a comedian and author, to the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell on Friday, Oct. 5.

Kevin Dwyer is the new executive director with the Lowell Folk Fest approaching this summer. A UMass Lowell graduate who studied sound recording technology, he was a special events assistant for the Lowell Summer Music Series for the last three years.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will address graduates at the May 19 UMass Lowell commencement ceremony at the Tsongas Center. U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, who became the first woman in 25 years to represent Massachusetts in Congress when she was elected in 2007, will be presented with the Chancellor's Medal in recognition of her tireless work for her district.

Nearly five years after Dic Donohue was critically injured during the manhunt following the Boston Marathon bombings, the former Transit police officer opened up about his life now. Donohue is now working on his PhD at UMass Lowell.

UMass Lowell students Gregory Montemurro and David Seybert, through their startup True to You, plan to resecure mobile technologies by using unique personal identifiers such as facial recognition, or biometrics, combined with in-house blockchain, and the cloud to eliminate the possibility of individual’s accounts being hacked.

Nicola Benyahia travels around the world, speaking about her experience as part of the Families for Life organization she helped found to raise awareness about extremism on the internet. She was the keynote speaker at a UMass Lowell conference Friday about online recruitment by extremist groups.

Senior forward Jahad Thomas not only posted huge numbers during his career at UMass Lowell, he was also one of the most unique talents in college basketball.

“There’s an idea that clean equals good and healthy, but this should broaden our idea of what cleaning work is and what the chemical hazards are in particular,” said Margaret Quinn of UMass Lowell.

Pop star Wyclef Jean met with UMass Lowell music students at the Thursday Recital Hour/Applied Seminar.

While women across the country continue to run for office in record numbers and coalesce into powerful social movements, local female leaders kicked off the annual Lowell Women's Week by praising those fighting for change.As Chancellor Jacquie Moloney put it: "Women are going to save the world."

UMass Lowell men's track and field team did the unthinkable as it won the America East Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at Boston University on Saturday.

With and 88-76 win over Maine, the River Hawks men's basketball team (11-16, 5-9 America East) clinched a berth into their first-ever America East tournament in their first year of eligibility.

Alexandre Lopes, a UMass Lowell associate professor of physical therapy, arrived in Pyeongchang, South Korea last week, where he is conducting research on behalf of the International Olympic Committee to determine how many athletes sustain injuries or fall ill during the Winter Games.

Column by Michael Millner, associate professor of English and American studies.

Three former local high school track rivals, Alli Wood, Marissa Richards and Samantha Wise, are not only teammates on the UMass Lowell women's track and field and cross country teams, they are also roommates and very close friends.

Physical therapy professor Alexandre Lopes is among the international experts in Pyeongchang studying the performance of the athletes for the International Olympic Committee.

As a result of a $400,000 grant from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative, SI2 Technologies in Billerica and UMass Lowell will partner to research and develop a flexible, electronic antenna that must be able to survive high temperatures at hypersonic speeds.

Katherine Tucker, director of UMass Lowell's Center for Population Health, recently received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of highly processed foods on cognitive decline.

UMass Lowell and UMass Medical project will help train professionals.

UMass Lowell student Nick Cote and fellow freshman Liam Henderson braved the cold to reach the summit of Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire, staying at the Carter Notch Hut at an elevation of 3,288 feet.

Third-graders and fourth-graders at Lowell Catholic welcomed visitors from the Tsongas Industrial History Center, who helped them experience the history of industrialization firsthand

CBS News's Anna Werner speaks with UML researcher Greg Morose of TURI, who came up with a safe, cost-effective alternative to hazardous paint strippers. Watch a demonstration of the performance of the new formulation. 

Three companies reached deals to build office space, retail space, and apartments in the Hamilton Canal Innovation District, finally bringing the promise of company to UMass Lowell's innovation hub at 110 Canal St.